Friday, March 16, 2007

There is no Sunday

For some reason I can't get the blog to know it's Sunday; so it will stay Friday until we fix this thing. Sorry about that.

[Later...] Fixed. It's safe to go to Sunday now.

From the Clothed Emperor dept...

It doesn't get dumber than this:

Are you saying that this linux can run on a computer without windows underneath it, at all ? As in, without a boot disk, without any drivers, and without any services ?

That sounds preposterous to me.

If it were true (and I doubt it), then companies would be selling computers without a windows. This clearly is not happening, so there must be some error in your calculations. I hope you realise that windows is more than just Office ? Its a whole system that runs the computer from start to finish, and that is a very difficult thing to acheive. A lot of people dont realise this.

Microsoft just spent $9 billion and many years to create Vista, so it does not sound reasonable that some new alternative could just snap into existence overnight like that. It would take billions of dollars and a massive effort to achieve. IBM tried, and spent a huge amount of money developing OS/2 but could never keep up with Windows. Apple tried to create their own system for years, but finally gave up recently and moved to Intel and Microsoft.

It goes on. Really.

[Later...] Mark Turner says Doc Searls got taken in by this ridiculous post saying Linux can't exist without Windows. This satiric post was so clever it pushed the buttons of scores of Linux zealots.

He adds,

Clicking through the thread I found mention of Shelley The Republican. Its the funniest political satire I've read anywhere.

I admire good satire. Its so hard to do properly. I don't think I could pull it off. "Shelley" and the "Jerry Lee Cooper" behind the Linux posts are world-class satirists (and could be the same person, since Linux is one of "Shelley's" occasional targets).

Thus I am busted. And digging through Shelley.

My fave post so far: Chatting with Charlie: Continental Drift, which begins Liberal geologists often cite "continental drift" as evidence for an old-earth. This of course is wildly wrong because it contradicts all known biblical facts.

If you like this kinda stuff, you might check out Landover Baptist Church ("Where the Worthwhile Worship"), which seems to be connected to Whitehouse.org, with its Department of Faith and Iraq Crusade. No hitting above the belt in either one of them.

Deja Foo, all over again

At the ProjectVRM blog: Customer Deflection Mismanagement.

And that's five months after the same damn thing.

Bracket madness

Ed Cone only missed one out of fifteen yesterday. My kid missed two. I missed three. I would have missed two if I hadn't gone with Duke over VCU. I knew VCU was tough and good, and that Duke was ending its worst year since the early 80s. But I thought, after losing so many in a row, Duke would finally win one. Alas, not to be.

Where the moon don't shine

John Levine: I found that ICANN operates along the lines of the court of the Sun King.

Question du jour

Dr. Weinberger: If too much information is noise, what is too much meaning? From the latest JOHO.

Bonus: Everything is Miscellaneous.